[address-policy-wg] 2007-05 New Policy Proposal (IPv6 ULA-Central)
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Jeroen Massar
jeroen at unfix.org
Fri May 4 21:16:40 CEST 2007
Vince Fuller wrote: >> The general solution of >> the probability of a collision after d draws from n possible values >> is given by: >> >> P = 1 - ((n!) / ((n**d)((n-d)!))) >> >> Given that the value for n is 2.199,023,255,552, then the objective >> is to find the lowest value of d for which P is greater than or equal >> to 0.5. In this case the value for d is some 1.24 million. >> >> >> http://draft-huston-ipv6-local-use-comments.potaroo.net > > Are people going to pick random values? I'd expect a more likely outcome > to be that they will pick strings that are easy to remember. How many > collisions will there be if that is the case? Remember DEADBEEF? If one is doing that, then why even bother using ULA's. Just use 1234::/48 or something similar then ;) One can't engineer around stupid people unfortunately... Greets, Jeroen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 311 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/attachments/20070504/7694e39e/attachment.sig>
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